Jack Harlow, Ray J, Brandy.Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic; Brian Stukes/WireImage
Jack Harlowrecently learnedBrandyandRay Jare siblings — and Twitter is surprised he didn’t already know.
During aninterview with Hot 97’s Ebro Darden, Laura Stylez, and Peter Rosenberguploaded to YouTube on Wednesday, the radio hosts played a game with the 24-year-old “First Class” rapper where they played songs and asked him to name the title and artist in a test of his musical knowledge.
“If people don’t know this, big surprise, Jack Harlow is Caucasian,” said Rosenberg, 42, during the radio broadcast. “He’s from Louisville, and I truly — because he’s such a hip-hop head, and he’s 24, but he’s white, I have no idea, sort of, what your cultural reference points are, so I just think this is a fascinating experiment to learn about young Jack Harlow.”
After partially recognizing songs including White Stripes' “Seven Nation Army” and Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” Harlow was immediately able to nameFergie’s"Glamorous" — which he sampled on “First Class.” But later in the interview, the radio hosts played several R&B and hip-hop songs from the 1990s and early 2000s and stumped him quite a few times.
“Who’s Ray J’s sister?” asked Harlow,Jeopardystyle. “I didn’t know they were siblings. Who is it?”
“Brandy and Ray J are siblings? Nobody’s ever told me that in my life. Nobody’s ever told me that,” replied Harlow, visibly shocked. “Y’all got a good clip off that one. Ray J and Brandy are siblings? I had no idea, bruh.”
Harlow quipped back and told the hosts he’d win in a modern music challenge. “Now don’t make me hook up and play every song that’s came out afterLil Uzi Vert. Y’all would be f—ed.”
The Hot 97 hosts cut Harlow some slack during the game, but Twitter users weren’t as kind. The clip quickly went viral on the platform, and many fans called out the musician for making hip-hop music as a white man and not knowing elements of the predominantly Black genre’s history.
“jack harlow is WHITE! him being 24 don’t got nothing to do w him not knowing brandy and ray j are related, i’m 19 and i know that,” read onetweetposted Wednesday. “as much as he tries to infiltrate black culture or whatever y’all can’t forget that he is white at the end of the day.”
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Others considered it understandable for Harlow not to know music that came before his time while still questioning his artistic knowledge.
“Jack Harlow is a 12 year old white boy so him not knowing who brandy is isnt crazy,“tweetedanother viewer. “But do artists not….study music???”
Meanwhile, some Twitter users found the entire uproar hilariously pointless.
“I can tell y’all don’t like Jack Harlow cause who cares he ain’t know Brandy and Ray J was siblings,” readanother tweet. “like why’s that important information.”
source: people.com
